As HYDRA agents went in Pietro's experience, there were the ones who operated behind the scenes and the ones who were actually capable of getting their hands dirty. Of the two Schmidt immediately came off as the former of the two given the way he all but shrieked as Pietro took out his bodyguards faster than he could scream. Schmidt might have been a good leader behind a desk or from a distance, he was possibly even the engineer behind the bomb they were after but he was clearly not a fighter.
...But all the same, the man was more or less gift wrapped for Wanda as she entered his suite. Computer and phone wires had been used to bind him to his office chair and with a final blur of emotion that swished Wanda's skirts, Pietro paused and leaned against the wall near the door, nodding to his sister as she entered.